It is found on the ground in damp woods. Not good.
Lacera means torn. The pileus is somewhat fleshy, convex, then expanded, obtuse, umbonate, clothed with fibrous scales.
The gills are free, broad, ventricose, white, tinged with red, light-gray. Spores are obliquely elliptical, smooth, 12×6µ.
The stem is slender, short, stuffed, clothed with small fibers, naked above, reddish within.
Found on the ground where the soil is clayish or poor. Not good.
[Illustration: Figure 218.--Inocybe subochracea Burtii. Natural size.]
This is a very interesting species. It is thus described by Dr. Peck: "Veil conspicuous, webby fibrillose, margin of the pileus more fibrillose; stem longer and more conspicuously fibrillose. The well developed veil, and the longer stem, are the distinguishing characters of this variety."
The plants are found in mossy patches on the north hillsides about Chillicothe. The pale ochraceous yellow and the very fibrillose caps and stem will attract the attention of the collector at once. The caps are one to two and a half inches broad and the stem is two to three inches long.
Pileus thin, conical or convex, sometimes expanded, generally umbonate, fibrillose squamulose, pale ochraceous-yellow.
The gills are rather broad, attached, emarginate, whitish, becoming brownish-yellow.
The stem is equal, whitish, slightly fibrillose, solid. _Peck._
This is a small plant from one to two inches high whose cap is scarcely over an inch broad. It grows in open groves where the soil is sandy. It is found on Cemetery Hill from June to October.
[Illustration: Figure 219.--Inocybe geophylla, var. violacea.]
This is a small plant and has all the characteristics of Inocybe geophylla excepting color of cap and gills.
The pileus is an inch to an inch and a half broad, hemispherical at first, then expanded, umbonate, even, silky-fibrillose, lilac, growing paler in age.
The gills are adnexed, lilac at first, then colored by the spores. Spores 10×5.
The stem equal, firm, hollow, slightly violaceous.
This plant grows in September in mixed woods among the dead leaves. Its bright violet color will arrest the attention at once.
[Illustration: Figure 220.--Inocybe dulcamara.]
Dulcamara means bitter-sweet. The pileus is an inch to an inch and a half in diameter, rather fleshy, convex, umbonate, pilosely-scaly.